US President Donald Trump has said that Canada will not impose tariffs on electricity coming into the United States after he backed down from a massive trade war escalation with its northern neighbour.
He accused Canada and Mexico of treating the US “unfairly” and also attacked the European Union calling it “horrible.”
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump said, “There’s a very strong man in Canada who said he was going to charge a surcharge or a tariff on electricity coming into our country. He has called and he said he’s not going to do that. And it would have been a very
bad thing if he did. And he’s not going to do that, so I respect that.”
“Look, we’ve been treated very unfairly by Canada. We’ve been treated very unfairly by Mexico, but we’ve been treated very unfairly by every country all over the world. The European Union is horrible and we’re going to get it back…But we are USD 36
trillion, and we’re going to get it back. We’re the biggest, we’re the best. And I’m very optimistic,” he added.
Trump also blamed former US President Joe Biden for the inflation and illegal immigration and said his predecessor left a “mess” and a horrible situation” for the people of the US, while affirming that his administration will make the US “wealthy again”.
“I have to tell you, I’m very optimistic about the country much more optimistic this way than if I did it the easy way…Biden left us a mess.
He left us tremendous inflation, tremendously high costs of products. He left us a mess, but he also left us a mess with millions of people that poured into our country that are criminals.
